Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-30
DAILY HERALD.
BILL NYE IN ART CIRCLES.
Geas That Were Painted by

glng in the midst OF wealth. In this
storeroom were pictures varying in
size from piece Of cloth up to one as
large each way as the plot for trag-
edy. There was one little painting OF
Diana surprised by New York artist.
didn't blame her much. 1t was a
very small painting, done on a piece
of celluloid no larger than a poker
chip, if I may be permitted to
use a comparison that is ex-
tremely distasteful to me. Another
small painting, The Landing
of Columbus" was on the
reverse side of a half dollar. The re-
worse side of a half dollar is the side
that you turn up while matching with
y man who most always wins.
I ventured to remark, as looked at
this little triumph of art on a small
scaie, that Columbus was always re-
garded by Americans as a courageous
man, but when they stopped to con-
slider that he landed at place where
cigars are twenty-five cents apiece and
that he landed on a half-dollar, it
seemed to me that few resolutions of
respect would not be out of place.
n ktutlclIldu WIZ oCOOu hCai iiO
and who was there to buy some art
gems for the dining-room of railroad
eating house, said that painting the
landing of Columbus on half-dollar
was no great triumph in that line. He
knew a man in Nova Scotia who
painted marine view of the deluge
on the handle of an umbrella, and
another man, who was neighbor OF
his, painted very life-like picture of
Europe on an empty stomach. He
said it was as good front view OF Eu-
rope as he ever saw, too.
AT this point salesman excused
himself, and I heard him holding a
consultation with his telephone in the
back part of the room, during which
he asked q gentleman named Ward
Siland if he hadn't found himself
short of low-set man with deep
red nose and tall, sad-looking party
who seemed to be in search Of quiet
place into which he could weep.
The hour for the sale having now
arrived, the gas was turned on and
the sacrifice began. The eating-house
man and l constituted the eager
crowd. The pictures, one after the
either, were set up on an easel, so that
q bunch of gas-jets, with the aid of a
bright tin reflector, would cast soft
-effulgence over the picture, and natur-
ally make man want it.
The first slaughter consisted of nice
red picture by De Gaumer. 1t repre-
sented an autumn scene just in the act
of putting on its heavy red flannel
under brush for the winter.
CHOW, there, said the eating-house
man to me, SIS q rare picture"
eyes," said 1, with charming
naivete and sangfroid, sit looks pretty
rare and it is not what you would call
we'll done."
He laughed heartily and gave him
q cigar, with loose Mother Hubbard
wrapper and inlaid filler, warning
him to be careful when he bit the end
off not to let the inside of the cigar
spill out.
We then began to discuss the works
of art as they were put up, and other
people dropped in to bid on the pic
tures and enjoy themselves.
"Here," said the urbane auctioneer
with no collar or conscience, sis a reel
oil painting. You can wash it, as l
will show you" He then calmly spit
or spat (which ever would look best in
print) on the picture and washed
the face of a maroon, rustic maiden
in blue shoes, with a greenish dog
near her that seemed to- be
mortised into a bunch of violet
grass. He then wiped her features
with the elbow of his shirt-sleeve,
wiped this sleeve on the other, then
that one on one leg of his pantaloons,
and that leg on the other, thus giving
Woodworth's method of illustrating
the first, second and third dilulions ot
homeopathy. "Here is picture
done by De Gaumer in oil. 1t would
ordinarily cost $3.50. The frame alone
would cost $50. What do l hear for
the picture, frame and all together.
':Will you have it sent to my ad-
dress if l buy it?" asked the eating
house man.
eyes, sir; boxed and shipped any
where.''
elbow about repairing that road
that goes northwest from the fore
ground to the seal-brown barn."
''That, sir, is not a road. 1t is a
mountain torrent"
"Oh torrent is it? 'Scuse haste
and bad pen. Thought it was the
county line road. can see now,
though, that it's torrent. Anybody
can see it's a torrent. 1 just begin to
savvy. Come to put my glasses on, l
can see that it is rip-snorting torrent
leaning up against a seal-brown barn
to rest and wait for q street sprinkler
to come along and squirt some water
ON it,"
"That is not a barn. 1t is a mill,
sir-a mountain mill in the Alps.
Back here in the dim horizon you can
see the Alps. How much for the pic
ture, gentlemen, frame and all? The
frame goes with the picture, remem-
her, and we will send it to your ad-
dress for you. How much do hear
for the picture? Start it at $75, gentle
men; $65l $55! $45! $35! $25l SIS
46l Give-me-an-offer ~
els that . foreign view?"
"Yes, sir; foreign view Of the Alps"
Looking south ?"
eyes, sir; looking SOUTH"
"From where ?"
"From the north. How much fol
the picture, gentlemen? Don't keel
mo waiting. Give me a bid on thii
beautiful picture. It must be sold"
.sWho did you say painted it?"
ode Gaumer."
"Of New York Z"
eyes, of New York"
s'Forty cents?"
Sporty cents? Why, the frame i
worth 35!"
"Forty cents !"
"You certainly don't want the pic
ture or you would not bid forty cent
"Tbat's it exactly. l bid forty cent
Coz Il because don't want it,"
uWolI sir 7 will administer sting